Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adj] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Some leave for work in the " private " sector but the majority are uninterested for one reason or another or leave to have children .
2 Visas are valid for 30 days .
3 WHEN a club are desperate for two points , Mansfield Park is not normally the best place to go looking for them .
4 The foreign drivers are responsible for 4,892 traffic accidents in Bohemia and Moravia in 1990. 128 persons was killed and 224 heavy injured .
5 Data were available for 215 patients in the first period , and 200 in the second .
6 Data were available for 1923 patients after 186 ( 8.8% ) patients had been excluded for one or more of the following reasons : healing not documented ( 66 patients ) , patient 's first ulcer ( 61 ) , ulcer diameter less than 5 mm ( 39 ) , supplementary ulcer medication ( 23 ) , alcohol abuse ( six ) , patient under 18 years old ( three ) , patient did not take medication ( three ) , ulcer not verified endoscopically ( one ) , anastomotic ulcer ( one ) , gastric ulcer ( one ) , bleeding ulcer at enrolment ( one ) .
7 Such reasoning is faulty for two reasons .
8 The relative risk of being seropositive in the British study compared with age peers in our study is infinite for 0–4 year olds , 4.6 for 5–9 year olds , and only 1.1 for subjects aged 10 or over .
9 In health terms , the car is responsible for 820 hours of life lost through a road traffic accident fatality , and 2,800 hours of life damaged by a road accident .
10 Thus , geochemical data is valid for 15-20 years , structural data for about 15 years , palaeontological papers for 20 to 40 years , and petrological work lasts between 10 and 20 years .
11 Coordinators ' unanimity about attitude change in their schools is significant for two reasons .
12 He 's been the club 's professional for 26 years and an amateur member before that so he knows a thing or two about the old place .
13 Driesch was wrong for two reasons .
14 Regrouping of data was necessary for one trial : table III of that paper was used to calculate the deaths in each group irrespective of the dose of vitamin A actually received .
15 Your accommodation vouchers are valid for one night only in Belfast and a supplement of £3.00 per night is payable for any additional nights at the Belfast Youth Hostel .
16 A significant proportion of fringe land around London , for example , is derelict and many of the more attractive sites are inaccessible for one reason or another .
17 Both certificates are valid for three months and the ceremony must take place in the district where notice has been given .
18 The all-cause mortality results of our trials are important for two reasons .
19 The benefits to industrial and commercial firms in enterprise zones are available for 10 years from the date of designation The main benefits are as follows .
20 For schemes where the benefit is payable for X months during the loan term payments should be suspended when the claimant is in temporary employment .
21 Item 5 is a weekly benefit , of which the first 14 days of any period of incapacity is excluded and benefit is payable for 104 weeks from the 15th day of incapacity .
22 Finch argues that the setting up and running of self help groups is essentially a middle class activity , and she concludes that the promotion of self help is deceitful for three reasons :
23 The sign made up of these two elements is arbitrary for two reasons : because , more obviously , the association of a signifier ( the sound-image ‘ tree ’ ) with a signified ( the concept tree ) is , except in a very few cases , fundamentally the product of linguistic convention , not of any natural link ; and , less obviously , because there is also no natural or necessary relationship between the sign as a whole and the reality to which it refers .
24 Bicycles can be hired free of charge once a week and tennis is free for 1 hour per week .
25 A woman who bears a male child is unclean for seven days , plus an additional thirty-three days , to complete the process of purification .
26 This quantity is sufficient for 125 litres of compost , enough to plant up a considerable number of hanging baskets , pots and window boxes .
27 They also provide evidence of the various sources of income of the strikers : spouses ' job and savings were the two most important sources ; tax rebates were an important source for both strikes , but supplementary benefit was insignificant for one strike because of their union 's practice of providing strike pay .
28 For the second period at Hinchinbrook , from May nineteen eighty eight to May nineteen eighty nine again at least one parent was present for eight hours each day and assistance was given with physiotherapy , occupational therapy and speech therapy .
29 Each guild was responsible for one pageant , and this often reflected the trade of its members , for example the shipwrights performed the building of the ark .
30 Even though the engines were crude and inefficient ( improved versions built by John Smeaton were only 1% efficient ) , the Newcomen engine was unchallenged for 60 years .
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